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Changes in this release: - Use g_printerr() instead of g_critical() in case of problems. - Initialize the GError to NULL at declaration. - Declare variables as const to setisfy the compiler. - Add missing casts. - Use g_content_type_is_a() to compare mimetypes. - Correct the order of mimetype check. - Iterate over item resources rather than renderer protocols. - Port all UIs to use GtkBuilder. - Bump-up Gtk+ requirement to 2.16. Removed dependency in this release: libglade. Contributors to this release: Sven Neumann < s.neumann@phase-zero.de > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) < zeeshanak@gnome.org > Download tarball here: http://gupnp.org/sources/ gupnp-tools/gupnp-tools-0.7.1. tar.gz

GUPnP 0.12.7 released. Changes in this release: - Chain up dispose and finalize in GUPnPDeviceInfo - Use a dedicated SoupSession for event handling - Fix device icon fallback logic - Fix user agent string - Sanity check UDN while parsing Download source tarball from: http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp/gupnp-0.12.7.tar.gz Contributors to this release: Sven Neumann Ross Burton Zeeshan Ali

I have been asked several times in the past if gupnp is portable enough. I always told them that I don't know for sure but the only problem i see is the low-level networking bits. Nobody really showed interest in actually trying it out on windows but then came Jens Georg. He managed to make gupnp stack and network-light working on windows within a weekend, despite the fact that some of his hours were wasted due to firewalls being enabled after a reboot and him forgetting about it. He has a small video of network-light running nicely on win32 on his blog .

Last night I tried to make a small app/script in javascript (gjs) and it actually worked. :) Here is the code: const GLib = imports.gi.GLib; const GUPnP = imports.gi.GUPnP; const Mainloop = imports.mainloop; // This doesn't start any threads GLib.thread_init (null); let context = new GUPnP.Context ({ main_context: null, host_ip: null, port: 0 }); let cp = new GUPnP.ControlPoint ({ client: context, target: "ssdp:all" }); function onDeviceProxyAvailable (cp, proxy) { log (proxy.get_friendly_name ()); } // Tell us when there is a new device available cp.connect ("device-proxy-available", onDeviceProxyAvailable); // Search and listen for UPnP resources on the network cp.set_active (true); Mainloop.run ("0");

GUPnP AV 0.4 released. New in this release: - Watch for empty DIDL-Lite nodes. - Escape the URIs before putting them into DIDL-Lite XML. - The '.' must be omitted from duration if fraction part is not included. - Be more lenient when parsing DIDL-Lite XML fragments. - Don't require the DLNA profile string. - Try to guess the DLNA Profile if not provided and put "*" in the whole 4th field of protocolInfo if our guess work fails. - Make sure 4th field of protocolInfo is completely in compliance with DLNA guidelines. This only implies one change in the API: enum dlna_play_speed is replaced by play_speeds, a GList of allowed play speeds as strings. - Use '1' and '0' to express boolean properties in DIDL-Lite XML. - Other minor fixes. All contributors to this release: Henrique Ferreiro García Peter Christensen Sven Neumann Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Download from here: http://gupnp.org/sources/ gupnp-av/gupnp-av-0.4.tar.gz -----------------------------

This name must be alien to most of the people reading this blog but he is quite a popular in indo-sub continent. Recently a muslim friend of mine presented his arguments to me when we discussed evolution so I thought of watching one of his videos about the theory of evolution. The following are my notes on this video that I was supposed to send to my friend but then realized that it would be nice to 1. share it with others 2. have these available somewhere in public: He starts his speech with the argument that in no book, it calls evolution a fact but theory. Now this only shows his ignorance about the very definition of a scientific theory and this alone should be enough to simply ignore anything such has to say about science. However I will not do that and listen to rest of his speech and address his arguments. Here is my notes on each of his arguments: 1. Quote from Darwin "I do not believe in natural selection, I do no believe in theory of evolution". First of all, coul

Just copy&paste from Valerio's blog to get this on planet GNOME: The Maemo community is looking for talented students to join us in the Google Summer of Code initiative. We already have a good pool of ideas, but we are also looking for students ideas in the mobile/embedded field, especially in the following areas: * Location based apps; * Context aware apps; * Linux kernel advances, related to mobile/embedded; * Social apps clients; * Mobile/embedded apps in general that can benefit a wide range of platforms (maemo, openmoko, beagleboard, etc…). More informations about Maemo @ GSoC can be found here .